expirediconian | Staff posted Nov 21, 2024 08:00 AM
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expirediconian | Staff posted Nov 21, 2024 08:00 AM
Viofo Dash Cams: A229 Pro 3 Channel $273, A119 Mini 2 $86, A229 Plus 2 Channel
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Got a new model for my car, DroneXC. Dash cam that live streams the video to my cell phone via 5G. So if the alarm goes off, it alerts me and I can pull up live video. The video is also automatically stored in the cloud. So if the entire car is stolen or they steal the dash cam, you'll still have the footage. Tracks the car via GPS too.
Yes, it's more expensive, but dope af.
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I live in Texas and have dashcams in all my (mine, wife, kids, etc.) cars, and as long as they have ultracapacitors and not batteries I've found them to handle the Texas heat just fine for years on end.
(And my cars are parked outside all the time -- they don't get garaged.)
Most are Viofo brand, like what's being sold here.
The very oldest camera has the plastic on the lens getting a bit cloudy, reducing the quality of the image it takes, but the image quality is still acceptable and that camera is six years old. (Looking it up, it's the non-Viofo exception: a Blueskysea Mini 0906 on what is now my son's car.)
Great share OP!
I mean, if there is a crash, I'm going to remove the card before any footage gets overwritten anyways, so there's no need to protect it.
And what happens with footage being protected that doesn't need to be is that more and more of the card becomes unusable, and eventually it only has room for one file that keeps getting overwritten. Doing periodic reformats is how one can deal with this, but it's even better to turn off the protection entirely (or turn the sensitively all the way down) and just have a big card instead.
Now, if you can turn incident detection on for any parking mode, then that makes more sense.
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Great share OP!
The back cam gets power from the front unit through cable, and the cable also transfers footage from the back to the front cam. There is only one card, in the front cam, and it's recording to two files at once.
It's also pretty easy in most cars to hide this cable entirely in the headliner and gaskets.
My A119 footage helped me expedite my insurance claim. Other party's insurance didn't even bother trying to dispute it once my insurance co sent them the footage.
I definitely recommend considering replacing the microsd every couple of years and sticking to high endurance ones rated to last tons of cycles.
The back cam gets power from the front unit through cable, and the cable also transfers footage from the back to the front cam. There is only one card, in the front cam, and it's recording to two files at once.
It's also pretty easy in most cars to hide this cable entirely in the headliner and gaskets.
Anyone have a good mount that is easy to release/install the dash cam?
The high cabin heat must be killing dash cams because I'm not the only one who has had this issue. I have security cameras installed outside that have never failed. The difference is that they are not experiencing 120+ degrees like the dash cams will.
I WANT THE CAMERAS HIDDEN or at least not obvious. I want no screen built in that forces the camera to be 20x the size it needs to be without a screen.
Dash cams are useless if a thief breaks in and steals the expensive accessory with the screen on your windshield
A unit with a remote processing box would also allow for mounting away from the heat and sunlight, like some higher end radar detector variants where everything is hidden.
Anything of high quality like this available yet?
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